5 Populism & the Jim Crow South

Following the Civil War, the US government followed -

• deflationary financial policies.

• inflationary financial policies.

• radical financial policies.

• unconstitutional financial policies.

Farmers' problems in the late 1800s largely stemmed from -

• falling crop prices.

• rising crop prices.

• the rising price of land.

• the falling price of land.

Check off the things / people that farmers blamed their problems on.

• banks

• manufacturing companies

• railroad companies

• the president

• small business owners

At first, farmers solved their problems by joining the Alliance of Farmers, where farmers -

• pooled their resources and cooperated.

• wrote letters to their representatives and senators.

• marched on Washington, DC.

• advocated government control of the railroads.

The Alliance "subtreasury plan" involved the government storing farmers' crops in warehouses and -

• issuing farmers low interest loans.

• supplying farmers with new equipment.

• raising tariffs on foreign farming goods.

• giving farmers free seed and fertilizer.

In the 1890s, which political party posed a genuine third party challenge to the Democrats and the Republican Party?

• the Populist Party

• the Bull Moose Party

• the Greenback Labor Party

• the American Party

Which Populist policy did the Democratic Party coopt in the 1896 presidential campaign?

• free coinage of silver

• direct election of Senators

• government ownership of railroads

• graduated income tax

The 1896 presidential election proved to be a big victory for -

• big business and the Republicans.

• farmers and the Democrats.

• big business and the Democrats.

• farmers and the Republicans.

What Supreme Court case ushered in the time of "Jim Crow" in the South through its "separate but equal" doctrine.

• Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

• Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)

• Lochner v New York (1903)

• Buck v Bell (1927)

How did southerners prevent African-Americans from voting during the Jim Crow South? Check off the two ways.

• literacy tests

• poll taxes

• closing polling stations

• passing city ordinances that said only whites could vote